{"id":52591,"date":"2026-04-30T11:42:33","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T03:42:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/?p=52591"},"modified":"2026-04-30T11:42:33","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T03:42:33","slug":"%e5%b1%b1%e5%a7%86-%c2%b7-%e5%a5%a5%e7%89%b9%e6%9b%bc%ef%bc%9a%e6%8c%89-token-%e8%ae%a1%e4%bb%b7%e7%bb%88%e5%b0%86%e8%bf%87%e6%97%b6%ef%bc%8copenai-%e8%a6%81%e5%81%9a%e7%9a%84%e6%98%af%e3%80%8c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/52591.html","title":{"rendered":"Sam Ottman: Token's price will end up out of date, OpenAI, and it's \"Intelligent Works.\""},"content":{"rendered":"

On April 30, according to StratecheryOpenAI<\/a> CEO Sam Altman<\/a> In an interview with a tech commentator, Ben Thompson, recently stated that, by token<\/a> THE PRICE-BASED AI PRICING MODEL IS NOT SUSTAINABLE IN THE LONG TERM, AND THE INDUSTRY WILL EVENTUALLY SHIFT TO A PRICING SYSTEM IN THE FORM OF \u201cMISSIONS ACCOMPLISHED\u201d\u3002<\/p>\n

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Altman exemplifies this determination by using the latest GPT-5.5 model: the single token price of GPT-5.5 is higher than that of the previous generation, butsignificant reduction in the number of tokens consumed for the same mission<\/strong>i don't know. he believes that users have never really cared about token consumption:<\/p>\n

you don't really care how much token the answer is, you just want to finish this; you only care what the total price is and whether it can be called whenever you need it\u3002<\/p>\n

On this basis, Altman changed the location of OpenAI from \"token factory\" to \"intelligence factory\". The core goal is to deliver as much intelligence as possible at the lowest possible price, and users do not need to care about whether the bottom runs large or small models, how much token, whether running on GPU or the Amazon self-study Trainium chip\u3002<\/p>\n

At the same time, Altman revealed that currently OpenAI clients are much more demanding additional capacity than negotiating the price. He compared AI to traditional utilities such as water and electricity and pointed out that there was a substantive difference between the two:<\/p>\n

If you look at intelligence as a \"utility,\" I don't know what kind of utility I think -- as long as it's low as a price, I'll always use more. There is no public utility like this\u3002<\/p>\n

AWS CEO Matt Garman added in this regard that while the annual unit price has fallen by several orders of magnitude over the past 30 years, today there are more total numbers sold than ever before, and AI ' s growth logic is highly similar\u3002<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On 30 April, according to Stratechery, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, in an interview with a tech commentator Ben Thompson, stated that the AI pricing model based on token would not be sustainable in the long term and that the industry would eventually shift to a pricing system based on \u201cmission accomplished\u201d. Altman exemplifies this judgement by using the latest GPT-5.5 model: the single token price of GPT-5.5 is higher than that of the previous generation GPT-5.4, but the amount of token consumed to complete the same task has decreased significantly. He thought that users never really cared about token consumption:<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[146],"tags":[190,468,1270],"collection":[],"class_list":["post-52591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-openai","tag-sam-altman","tag-token"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52591"},{"taxonomy":"collection","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/collection?post=52591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}